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J. D. Salinger

It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road.
J. D. SALINGER

Cold Crazy Kind Road Sun Time
But it wasn’t just that he was the most intelligent member in the family. He was also the nicest, in lots of ways. He never got mad at anybody. People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily, but Allie never did, and he had very red hair.
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Easy Family Hairs Himself Mad People
I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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Myself Word
You think of the book you’d most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
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Book Reading Shame Thinking Writing Yourself
People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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People Reason Wrong
The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.
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Choice Difference Happiness Himself Joy
People are always ruining things for you.
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People Ruin Yourself
I mean how do you know what you’re going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don’t. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it’s a stupid question.
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Myself Stupidity Thinking Yourself
Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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People Rich
How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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Man Touch
The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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Choice Material Poet True
There are nice things in the world – and I mean nice things. We’re all such morons to get so sidetracked.
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Beautiful Stupidity World
If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.
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Girl Herself Time
I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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Courage Myself Sickness
I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
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Feeling Myself Run
I mean they don’t seem able to love us just the way we are. They don’t seem able to love us unless they can keep changing us a little bit. They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more.
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Change Love Myself Reason Time

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